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Christmas Edition

Well, Christmas has come and gone. It’s in bad taste to discuss what I got, so I’m avoiding that.

In the bigger picture, it seems that every year Christmas is more and more anticlimactic. For those of you without a thesaurus, there isn’t much to it anymore. You build it up in your head, you see TV commercials and Christmas movies, and then it’s here, and it seems like just about any other day. Maybe I’m just getting older, I don’t know.

With the exclusion of this past summer’s Hawaii trip, this past weekend’s 5 day weekend was the most days I’ve had off since I started working. It felt pretty good. Friday night I just hung out. Saturday, I did my Christmas shopping, and then went to the Bieri’s Christmas party that night. Sunday, I finished shopping. Monday was Christmas Eve, and I pretty much sat around all day until I had to leave to play in both services. After that, my parents came over and we watched It’s a wonderful life.

Tuesday (Christmas Day), we went over to Steph and Joel’s.

The day after Christmas I pretty much sat around all day. I did go out in the morning to get some discounts on lights for next year’s display. After that I watched TV and Movies all day with naps in between.

Last week before Christmas

Everything has been pretty normal the last week.

Christmas is coming up, so I have been doing some shopping and such. I ended up getting a tree on clearance at Target. They were all out so I got the display model. The gave me the big red dot with the price on it. They had to scan the big dot for me to pay. It was kind of amusing.

I’m still pushing to get my kitchen remodeled. I’m hoping to hear back from the place I’m probably going to go with. I was hoping to be done by Christmas, but now without much time left, that’s kind of unlikely. I did hang a sweet potrack above my stove. It looks nice and it saves some space. I don’t have a lot of space to begin with. Then, add the fact that after the remodel I’ll have a dishwasher, and that will take away more space. So, it seemed like the obvious thing to do.

We had the first snow of the season yesterday. 5 or 6 inches (yes, that’s was she said). My parents and I were watching Alex. We went over to Brad and Leslie’s. They have a really hilly neighborhood. As expected, people were having lots of trouble on the hills. Both up and down. Thankfully, both their car and ours did ok.

Xmas Approaching Fast

Well, we got 1st in the parade. It was pretty sweet. Parades are always fun. It was a little dramatic, because our generator wasn’t working. We had to go to Ross’s house to pick up his. It was pretty cold out, but I think with the playing and moving I produced enough heat, because I wasn’t cold after awhile.

That night at the awards ceremony we found out we got first. The people who got second this year got first last year, so I can sense a rivalry starting. We’ll have to bring our A game next year.

The kitchen’s coming along. Got it painted. I’ve kind of been in house overdrive the last week. Lots of painting. Now I’ve starting painting the staircase. I should have that done in the next couple days. Once I get the actual cabinets and stuff remodeled, my kitchen will be pretty sweet.

I have my lights up and going strong now. I had to get some more last night because some of my neighboors have been putting up lights and more lights, and I was to try to be among the people with the most and best lights.